Comments on: Highly recommended XP tweak http://electrolicious.com/2005/03/highly_recommen Daily affirmations of a word mercenary Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:48:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tumbleweed http://electrolicious.com/2005/03/highly_recommen#comment-5332 Tumbleweed Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:19:44 +0000 #comment-5332 Perhaps it's just me, but I think ClearType looks _much_ worse than the regular Windows font-smoothing on CRT displays. The before and after graphic on that page you linked looks much worse _after_ ClearType. Yes, the letters have more colours to make the curves smoother, but everything looks blurry afterwards. Consistently blurry, but still blurry. I went ahead and installed it, though, since you recommended it, and went through the 'tuner' part of the installation, and when I was picking which fonts looked best, some of them looked really amazing, and I started getting excited. And then I finished the installation and everything was ... blurry. *shrug* I'll stick with my non-blurry 'crude' text for now, and give this a shot when I upgrade to my dream of dual LCD panels. :) Perhaps it’s just me, but I think ClearType looks _much_ worse than the regular Windows font-smoothing on CRT displays. The before and after graphic on that page you linked looks much worse _after_ ClearType. Yes, the letters have more colours to make the curves smoother, but everything looks blurry afterwards. Consistently blurry, but still blurry. I went ahead and installed it, though, since you recommended it, and went through the ‘tuner’ part of the installation, and when I was picking which fonts looked best, some of them looked really amazing, and I started getting excited.

And then I finished the installation and everything was … blurry. *shrug* I’ll stick with my non-blurry ‘crude’ text for now, and give this a shot when I upgrade to my dream of dual LCD panels. :)

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